PDF generation from HTML without managing servers

PDF generation from HTML without managing servers Your app generates invoices. Estimates. Contracts. Shipping labels. Every document becomes a PDF. Currently: You run wkhtmltopdf on your server. It works... until it doesn't. Wednesday 3 PM: wkhtmltopdf process hangs on a malformed HTML file. All PDF generation freezes. Customers can't download invoices. Support tickets pile up. By 5 PM, you're SSH'ing into production servers, killing processes manually. There's a better way. A REST API that generates PDFs from HTML. No server to manage. No hanging processes. No complexity. The self-hosted PDF generation trap Most developers start with wkhtmltopdf or similar CLI tools: const { execSync } = require ( ' child_process ' ); const fs = require ( ' fs ' ); function generatePDF ( html , filename ) { fs . writeFileSync ( ' /tmp/input.html ' , html ); execSync ( `wkhtmltopdf /tmp/input.html /tmp/ ${ filename } .pdf` , { timeout : 30000 }); const pdf = fs . readFileSync ( `/tmp/ ${ filename } .pd